From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 6 05:26:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06930 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA06924 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:26:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from localhost (kpielorz@localhost) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA00381 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:26:24 +0100 (BST) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 13:26:24 +0100 (BST) From: Karl Pielorz To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Toasting /etc/rc.conf... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is probably a very minor point in the grand scheme of things, but I managed to complete delete my /etc/rc.conf the other day by: 1. Going single user 2. vi'ing /etc/rc.conf 3. Suspending vi 4. running /stand/sysinstall sysinstall hung at the 'Probing devices prompt - this may take some time', and I had to switch the machine off (I'm running a serial console now - which couldn't quit sysinstall, and the VGA one appeared 'dead' - as it does now I'm on a serial one). When the machine came back up - it did so as 'amnesic', and sure enough /etc/rc.conf was a zero byte file... Vi reckoned it couldn't recover any files either... I know this is probably a 'stupid thing to do' (tm), but nasty all the same - I just thought someone might want to know... ;-) This also served as 'another good reason to do backups' though, as I'd backed up the system about 5 minutes previous, and now know what restore is like in interactive mode ;-) Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message